Company Description

Repeatedly voted one of Montreal’s Top Employers and Employer of the Year for the 2022 Mercuriades Awards, Rodeo FX is a high-end creative company offering services in visual effects, advertising, animation, and experiential.

Nominated for multiple Emmy® Awards for its work on the series Stranger Things season 4, The Witcher season 2, and The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power season 1, the independent, Oscar®-winning company boasts close to 900 artists crafting from studios in Montreal, Québec City, Toronto, Los Angeles and Paris.

Rodeo FX is a creative partner to the world’s best storytellers including Netflix, HBO, Disney, Marvel, Amazon Studios, Warner Bros., and Sony, and has collaborated on ads for YouTube, NBC, and Apple. Current projects include Blue Beetle, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon. Recently released projects include John Wick: Chapter 4, Black Adam, Disney's The Little Mermaid, and Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, for which the company won a 2023 VES award.

Job Description

Please note that we are looking for a senior artist specializing in high-end, photorealistic CG doubles and creatures. Your demo reel and portfolio must clearly demonstrate this type of work to be considered for the role.

The Modeling Artist is responsible for creating high-quality mechanical, organic, or stylized assets, ensuring their smooth integration into the pipeline.



In collaboration with supervisors and other departments, they help maintain the visual quality and technical robustness of the delivered models. They produce optimized assets that meet Rodeo FX’s technical, aesthetic, and production standards, while maintaining transparent and effective communication with other teams.

Main responsibilities:

Mastery of his craft

- Model complex 3D models from concepts, photo references or scanned elements.
- Produce clean topologies that comply with the production standard.
- Follow internal nomenclature, organization and delivery conventions.
- Manage your priorities and respect the defined deadlines.
- Faithfully respect the visual style of the project, whether realistic or stylized.
- Accurately reproduce volumes, proportions and details.
- Model accurately even from partial or absent references.
- Build a clean and optimized topology, suitable for subsequent steps.
- Correct artifacts, maintain clean UVs if required, and verify compliance with standards.
- Prepare models for export to the following departments.
- Keep up to date on modeling tools, techniques and methodologies.

Communication

- Communicate effectively with supervisors and production regarding progress, issues or blockages.
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure smooth continuity between departments.
- Actively participate in dailies, taking into

📌 Senior Modeling Artist (Montreal)
🏢 Rodeo FX
📍 Montreal